Fire! (manga)

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Fire!
Fire! by Hideko Mizuno v1 cover.jpg
The cover of the first volume of Fire!
ファイヤー!
(Faiyā!)
Manga
Written byHideko Mizuno
Published byShueisha
ImprintSun Comics (Asahi Sonorama)
MagazineSeventeen
DemographicShōjo
Original run1969 – 1971
Volumes4
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Fire! (ファイヤー!, Faiyā!) is a shōjo manga series by Hideko Mizuno about the rise and fall of an American rock star named Aaron. It was serialised in Seventeen from 1969–1971[1] and won the 1970 Shogakukan Manga Award.[2]

Aaron Browning is an American teenager who gets sent to juvenile prison after being caught with a delinquent named Fire Wolf. He finds solace in music and later manages to sort-of bond with Fire Wolf himself, and he ultimately leaves to Detroit determined to make it in the musical industry. He leads a band named Fire! and soughts to lead people to freedom with their music.

The hedonistic Aaron is neither a 'boy next door' character, nor a 'shining prince', and Sandra Buckley states that it was his 'non-conventional, rebellious behavior' that was part of the attraction for the fans of Fire!. It was innovative for shōjo manga by having the first sexually explicit scenes in post-World War II manga, and by having a male protagonist.[1] The model for Aaron was Scott Walker of The Walker Brothers.[3]

The story has been read as a "conservative morality tale", but Buckley states that this ignores the two-year run of readers following Aaron's exploits avidly. There are accounts of teenage girls queueing for the next issue to come out.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Buckley, Sandra (1991) "'Penguin in Bondage': A Graphic Tale of Japanese Comic Books", pp. 170-171, In Technoculture. C. Penley and A. Ross, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota ISBN 0-8166-1932-8
  2. ^ 小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 19 August 2007.
  3. ^ オンライン, クロワッサン (2 October 2016). "少女漫画の歴史を生きる、伝説の漫画家・水野英子さん77歳。 | トピックス". クロワッサン オンライン (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 April 2021.

Further reading[]

  • Frederik L. Schodt (1983). Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics. Kodansha.
  • Shamoon, Deborah (2018). "Fire!: Mizuno Hideko and the development of 1960s shōjo manga". In Darling-Wolf, Fabienne (ed.). Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315689036. hdl:11343/222387. ISBN 9781315689036.

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